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Four essays on inductive logic
Sentential Logic Primer
Recent
papers (PDF format):
Persistent differences in patterns of
brain activation after sports related concussion: A longitudinal fMRI study
Perception and identification of random events
Category-based updating
Yes, there is a neural dissociation between language
and reasoning (TICS)
Quantified preference logic
Accuracy of inferring self- and
other-preferences from spontaneous facial expressions
Selectivity for Abstract Visual Structure in Ventral
Temporal Cortex
Updating: Learning versus supposing
Notes on random reals
Remarks on “Random Sequences”
Modal logic for preference based on reasons
Learning stimulus relationships increases control
in the flanker task
Logic, Language and the Brain
Improving Aggregated Forecasts of Probability
Detecting deviations from randomness
Thought beyond language: neural dissociation of
algebra and natural language
Wishful Thinking in
the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
An fMRI study of
conceptual combination
Inferring the social preferences of others from
spontaneous, non-emotional facial expressions
Aggregating Large
Sets of Probabilistic Forecasts by Weighted Coherent Adjustment
Preference based on reasons
Descriptive assessment of
Jeffrey’s Rule
The neural basis of
conceptual combination
Second order probability affects hypothesis
confirmation
Detecting deception by loading working memory
On the provenance of judgments of conditional
probability
Inductive inference based on probability and similarity
From similarity to inference
Independent Neural Representation of Logical Versus
Linguistic Inference
Similarity and Induction
A Partially
Truth Functional Approach to Indicative Conditionals
Probabilistic coherence and proper scoring rules
Methods for distance-based judgment
aggregation
Formal Learning
Theory in Context
Functional Neuroanatomy of Deductive Inference
Recognizing
strong random reals
False consensus bias in contract interpretation
Music perception
among schizophrenia patients (abstract)
Predicting judged
similarity of mammals from their neural representations
Confirmation may
depend on more than probability
Aggregating Forecasts
of Chance from Incoherent and Abstaining Experts
Scalable Algorithms
for Aggregating Disparate Forecasts of Probability
Elementary proof of a theorem of Jean Ville
Note on an observation
by Neil Tennant
Adding Dense, Weighted
Connections to WordNet
On Typicality and
Vagueness
Real Estate Values and
Air Pollution: Measured Levels and Subjective Expectation
Comparison of
confirmation measures
Learning to
coordinate: A recursion theoretic perspective
From Similarity to
Chance
Induction as
conditional probability judgment
Order Dependence and
Jeffrey Conditionalization
Evidential Diversity
and Premise Probability in Young Children's Inductive Judgment
On the Reality of the
Conjunction Fallacy
A Different
Conjunction Fallacy
Conjunction and the
Conjunction Fallacy
Aggregating Disparate
Estimates of Chance
A note on concave
utility functions
New Evidence for
Distinct Right and Left Brain Systems for Deductive versus Probabilistic
Reasoning
Notes on Statistical
Tests
No method of ampliative inference respects conditionalization
Scientific
Discovery from the Perspective of Hypothesis Acceptance
A Note on Superadditive Probability Judgment
Wisdom and Aging
The Relation Between
Probability and Evidence Judgment: An Extension of Support Theory
On the
Psychology of Vague Predicates
Category Based
Induction
Computer Output
New axioms for the Contrast Model of similarity
Combining prototypes: A selective modification
model
Conceptual combination with prototype concepts